Civil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights

The Civil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights Task Force works to protect the civil rights, housing and voting rights of the Latino community. The task force oversees issues such as the Voting Rights Act, hate crimes, and housing fairness.

Members:
Rep. José Serrano, Co-Chair
Rep. Norma Torres, Co-Chair
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard

More on Civil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights

CHC CHAIR ON ROMNEY, KOBACH PARTNERSHIP
February 27, 2012
Press Release
"Mitt Romney's belief that Arizona's extreme immigration law, SB 1070, should be a nationwide model is disturbing and shows just how tone-deaf and disconnected he is to our country's fastest growing population."
Issues:Immigration and Border IssuesHealthcareCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights
Velázquez Remarks on Selma-Montgomery Marches
February 16, 2012
Press Release
We stand here, black, white, Asian and Latino, to say with one voice, that inequality will not stand. The struggle goes on. The march continues… And we will never allow our nation to go back!
Issues:Civil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights
CHC URGES INVESTIGATION OF AZ. BOOK BAN, SUPPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA
January 25, 2012
Press Release
Chairman Charles A. Gonzalez (TX 20) and Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ 7), chair of the CHC education task force, sent a letter this week to top federal education officials urging an investigation of whether an Arizona state law violates federal standards by targeting Tucson Unified School District’s successful Mexican-American Studies (MAS) program.
Issues:Trade, Commerce, and ManufacturingEducation and VeteransCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights
CHC CHAIR ON SOTU ADDRESS
January 25, 2012
Press Release
I‘m glad the president believes that we have a lot of work to do. Even though there has been consistent private sector job growth for the past 22 months, unemployment levels are simply unacceptable. With 11% of Hispanics left jobless in the wake of a housing crisis and financial meltdown, President Obama and Congress must do everything we can to jump start our economy and to avoid creating another legacy of boom-and-bust cycles.
Issues:Immigration and Border IssuesTechnology and InfrastructureHealthcareCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights
CHC ON APPOINTMENT OF CECILIA MUÑOZ
January 10, 2012
Press Release
There is no doubt that Ms. Muñoz’s experiences working with Congress and advocacy organizations across the country will prove to be a benefit to the president.
Issues:Immigration and Border IssuesEducation and VeteransHealthcareCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting RightsDiversity and Inclusion
GOP SENATORS PROPOSE TO PROHIBIT IMMIGRATION LAWSUITS
November 7, 2011
Press Release
Chairman Gonzalez resonded to the news that Senators DeMint, Vitter and Sessions will offer a bill to prohibit President Obama from participating in lawsuits against states over recent immigration laws.
Issues:Immigration and Border IssuesHealthcareCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights
CHC CHAIR ON REP. DUNCAN’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT RHETORIC
November 2, 2011
Press Release
Chairman Gonzalez released this statement in response to comments made by Rep. Jeff Duncan (SC 3) comparing our country’s broken immigration system to a house without a door that allows "any kind of vagrant or animal" to come in.
Issues:Immigration and Border IssuesCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights
CHC ON CALIFORNIA’S DREAM ACT
October 12, 2011
Press Release
“We cannot jeopardize the future of our country by restricting the opportunities of those who have faced the odds and have persevered to earn a college education. Our DREAMers are vital to the future of our nation’s economic security."
Issues:Immigration and Border IssuesEducation and VeteransHealthcareCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights
CHC CHAIR GONZALEZ ON ALABAMA’S IMMIGRATION LAW PROVISIONS
October 4, 2011
Press Release

Washington D.C.: Chairman Charles A. Gonzalez (TX 20) released a statement in response to US district judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn’s refusal to block several provisions in Alabama’s immigration law:

“Alabama’s imprudent law amounts to abuse of governmental authority. Stopping and questioning individuals without any reasonable basis other than a person's ethnicity is textbook–style profiling. Our immigration policies truly need to be fixed, but not through a hodge-podge of state-sponsored attempts at profiling and not by abusing governmental authority.”

Issues:Immigration and Border IssuesEducation and VeteransCivil Rights, Housing, and Voting Rights